Final Effects Complete AVX was formerly known as ICEfx. Version 4.0 provides these ICE hardware-accelerated effects as a software-only solution. FEC AVX is not compatible with the older ICE versions that ran on the AVX architecture.

Supported Hosts
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Boris Final Effects Complete 4.0 supports all Avid systems running on the AVX 1.0 architecture, including Avid DS systems. Avid® Visual Extensions (AVX) is a plug-in architecture that dynamically extends the effects supported by Avid systems. This version version is for Windows only. A future release will add Macintosh support.

Minimum System Memory Requirements
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The following requirements are recommended for Windows users.

Minimum 512 MB (assigned to Avid host application)

Recommended 512 MB (assigned to host application)

Supported Operating Systems
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The initial release is for Windows only. A future release will add Macintosh support. Boris Final Effects Complete 4.0 supports the following operating systems:

Microsoft® Windows® 2000 and Windows XP®

Purchasing Final Effects AVX Complete Via a Trial Version
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The following section details the method for registering and purchasing FEC AVX via a Trial version downloaded from the Boris FX website.

Launch your Avid system and apply a Final Effects Complete AVX filter to a clip.

Enter Effects mode.

In the Effect Editor window, click the
Other Options button
directly below the filter name to access the registration dialog.

Click the
Purchase button
to purchase an Unlock Code.

Installing Final Effects Complete from a CD-ROM
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The following instructions detail how to install Final Effects Complete via a CD.

Quit all applications.

To correctly install Boris Final Effects Complete AVX, you must log on to your system as an Administrator.

NOTE: If after at least 15 seconds the Welcome window does not appear, double- click “setup.exe” located within the “install” directory found at the root of the Boris CD.

Choose the language for installation from the choices in the menu. Click
OK
.

The Boris Setup License Agreement appears. Click to accept the terms of the license agreement. Then click
Next
.

Enter your User Name, Company Name and Serial Number in the Customer Information screen. Include the hyphens when you enter the serial number. The product serial number is found inside the front cover of your CD case. Click
OK
.

In the Select Features screen, select the hosts where you want to install FEC AVX. To install into multiple hosts, click all hosts that apply.

Click
Next
.

In the next window, click
Install
to begin the installation. The installer will search for your host(s) on the system and install FEC 4.0 inside your host(s).

A Plugin Destination window indicates the path where the FEC AVX plug-ins will be installed for each host. Click
Next
.

The procedures for compositing using FE fi lters in Avid Xpress Pro are different than the procedures for compositing in Avid DS. Compositing in Avid Xpress Pro requires the use of the FE Composite category of fi lters; in Avid DS, these fi lters are not necessary. For detailed instructions, see Chapter One in the
Boris Final Effects Complete AVX Guide
.

Known Limitations
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Final Effects Complete Version AVX 4.0.3 includes the following known limitations:

All filters are 8-bit only.

The FE Split 2 and FE Alpha Map fi lters do not include online help fi les. In these two fi lters, clicking the
Other Options button
in the Effect Editor window launches a dialog box that includes custom controls.

Some fi lters that appear in the
Transitions category
are single-input effects that cannot be applied as transitions. For example, both an
FE Twister
and an
FE Twister (w/Backside)
effect appear in the
Transitions category.
However, the FE Twister can only be applied to a clip, not to the transition between two clips. To create a Twister transition between two clips, use the
Twister (w/Backside)
effect. To create a transitionusing a single-input effect, you can use the
FE Join
filter to create a transition by revealing the underlying tracks in the timeline. For details, see Chapter One in your User Guide.

Unlike the transitions in the
EZ Transitions category
, most of the effects in the
Transitions category
do not auto-animate. To create a transition that wipes away to reveal the incoming clip, you must animate the
Completion
or
Transition Complete
parameter from a value of
0
at the fi rst keyframe to a value of
100
at the last keyframe.

Applying an FEC AVX fi lter to an Avid title is a destructive process that replaces the Avid title in the timeline. To edit the title as text (for example to change text characters or font), you need to reopen the original title saved in a bin. Removing an FEC AVX effect also removes the title’s nested alpha channel. To remove an FEC AVX effect and preserve the title, use the Undo command instead of the
Remove Effect button
.

Not all FEC AVX effects apply to titles. If you try to apply an FEC AVX effect to a title and it does not apply, an “Effect does not apply” error message displays.

In Avid DS, reviewing an effect in the viewer before the effect is rendered to disk can display a fi eld problem. This fi eld problem exists in cached frames from the previewed effect and is due to a limitation in DS.

To work around this limitation:

Build your effect. Before processing it, move the position indicator off of the effect.

In the Toolbar customization options, press the
Purge Memory Cache button
. When you render the effect to disk, you will no longer see fi eld problems.

About Boris FX

Boris FX is a leading developer of visual effects, titling, video editing, and workflow tools for broadcast, post-production, and film professionals. Boris FX products have grown to serve over a million artists worldwide. The company’s success lies in its ability to tightly integrate and leverage technologies through strong partnerships with Adobe, Apple, Avid, Blackmagic, Grass Valley, Nexidia, Sony, Quantel and other leading developers of video editing software. In 2014, Boris FX acquired Imagineer Systems, the Academy Award-winning developer of mocha planar tracking software. In 2016 Boris FX acquired GenArts Inc. and added the flagship Sapphire product to the BorisFX product family.